Railway car



T. ELLIOTT RAILWAY CAR Filed Jan. 8, 1925 INVENTOH Arr-mun:

Patented Nov. 17, 1925.

UNITED STATES NT OFF-E.

THOMAS ELLIOTT, or cmoinnnrrr, onro, ASSIGNOR To min'ernoinna'rr can con- 'PANY, OF WINTQN PLACE, oHIo; A oonronATIoN or OHIO.

RAILWAY can.

. Application filed Janu ry the types used on city and interurban'railways.

The object of this invention is to pro-. videa slidable door made in sections hinged or flexibly connected together. The purpose of the flexible connections is to make the door readily assume the curvature of that part of the car where the doorway is located, so that the door will promptly conform to the general outline of that part of the car wall; and will also straighten. out when .it is run back from the doorway into the pocket in the straight side of the car wall. y

Another feature'is that of a guard connected with the door and adapted when the door is in the doorway to extend over the step-Welland across'the space between the floor and the door to prevent anyone from stepping down into this space and being injured.

In the accompanyingdrawings formingapart of this specification:

Figure 2 is a vertical, transverse sectional view, on a larger scale, taken on the line of the arrow. 7 v

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail View, in horizontal section, of parts of two sections of the door showing the hinge connection between them, and the division between two sections-of the guard:

Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view taken through the upper part of one of the doors and the roof structure.

Certain conventional parts of an ordinary car are shown in the drawings, particularly Figure 1, and somewhat in Figure 2, which form no part of this invention.

For instance, such parts are the vestibule corner post 1 and the structural features Figure 1 is a partial plan and partial 22 of Figure 1, looking in the direction 8, 1925. Serial No.'1 162.

adjacent to it as shown at theright in Figure 1; and such also as the other stru'ctural features appearing at the leftin Figure l and consisting generally of the'pa'rts" 2 3 and 4, the latter being a cross partition which divides the interior of the car from the platform where thedoorway islocated.

A pocket indicated at 5fisformed within the sidewall of the car. Inner sash'es'6 are built in and outer wall plates 7' and one or more sashes 8 are utilized informing the car body', with thespace of pocket 5" between them as seen Figure 1. The door is to be run back into this pocket when the doorway is to be op-ene'dby the removal of the door. vestibule post 1 back to the beginningof the side wall ofthe car, as also seen in Figiire 1. The door is made in sections] 9, 10 and 1 1 or other suitable number. These sections are flexibly or hingedly connected together. The preferred type of conned tion or hinge is shown" best in Figiire 3 and consists-of a hinge properformed" of plates 12' and 13 secured to the faces of the door sections asby screws 14 and'having a pintle 15. This results 'in making the door asa whole flexible or bendable where the sections come together,so that the door will readily assume a curvature conforming The doorway extends from the substantially to the curvature of the outline of the platform, and yet will straig'hten out to conform to the straight sided pocket into which the door recedes when the doorway is to stand open.

Any convenient means of suspendingthe door, as by a track and rollers'may be used, a selected form of which is indicated clear 1y inFigure 4. The track is designated 16, the hangers which are connected with the door sections are indicated at 1$,1:a'nd the rollers at 19. They are, mounted on the hangers and are adapted to travel on the track. In my co-pending application, Serial No.

746,032, filed October 27th, 1924; I; have 1 And in my other copending application,

Ser. No. 753,405, filed Dec. 7 1924, I have shown power operated mechanism for opening and closing car doors and I wish it to be understood that such power mechanism may also be employed in connection with the doors of the present invention.

It will now be seen that the several sections of my present door conform themselves, as to whether they assume together a curved line or a straight line or in part.

straight line sides or enclosures of the pocka straight and in part a curved line,

to the curvature of the platform and the straight lines of the pocket, so that the door as'a whole may readily be moved from across the doorway into the pocket, more or less, or wholly, and from the pocket across the doorway also more or less or wholly, without any binding or sticking and with smoothness and readiness. Thus my door arrangement constitutes a combination of a flexible door with a curved doorway v and a straight sided pocket.

" ter is closed, I provide a guard indicated at 20 and'best seen in Figure 2. It will be seen that this guard is attached at 21 to the door sections and is itself made in sections as shown in Figure 3 so that it will conform to the position of the door sections, whether they form a straight line or a curved line. And it will further be seen, from Figure 2 that the guard extends laterally from the door toward the floor 22 of the platform and thus overlaps the space between the door and such edge, so that each section of the guard will effectually prevent a passenger getting his foot into the space between the door and the platform and down into the step-well 23 which is beneath the door. In order to cover the gap between'the sections of the guard I turther provide lap-strips 20 eachsecured as by rivets to one guard near its end so as to overlap the next section and cover the space between them. In Figure 3 I have shown the lap-strip broken away to exhibit the space between the guards. This guard'made in sections and coordinated with my doors also made in sections and adapted to travel on curved lines, constitutes animprovement over the rigid guard set forth in my Patent No.

1,47 6,960, dated December 11, 1923, for railway cars.

In order to guide the lower end of the et; and also that the guard likewise conforms itself as a whole to the curved and straight positions of the d-oor,itself.

It will be understood that I desire to comprehend within my invention such inodifivarying conditions and uses. c

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:v

cations as may be necessary to adapt it to 1. In a car, the combination with a side wall having a pocket and a platform having a doorway, of a door mounted to slide from the pocket to the doorway and. vice versa and composed of sections flexiblyconnected together, and a guard made in sections and connected each to a section of the door.

2. In a car, the combination with a side wall having a straight sided pocket and a platform having a curved door-way, of a door made of sections hinged together and adapted to travel from the pocket to the doorway and vice versa and to conform itself from a straight line to a curved line and vice versa, and a guard made in straight sections and connected each to a section of the door.

3. In a car, the combination with a side wall having a pocket and a platform having doorway, of a door made in sections hin edly connected, together, a track on which the door is hung, a guard composed of sec tions each secured to a sectionof the door, the guard sections extending across the space between the door and the platform, and means to guide the lower end of the door by contact, with the guard.

4. In a car, a door composed of sections hingedly connected together, and a guard secured to the door, made in sections connected respectively to the respective door sections, and extending laterally from the door so as to occupy the space between the door and the floor of a car when the door and guard are mounted 1n place in such car.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature.

THOMAS ELLIOTT. 

